Serious C road crash in Dorset DT11 on 20 November 2025 at 16:56 involving a Peugeot 207
A Peugeot 207 hit a pedestrian on a C road in Dorset at 16:56 on Thursday 20 November 2025. A 73-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Nov 2025
- Thursday, 16:56
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 207
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.91365, longitude -2.23686, in the DT11 postcode district. The location was in the former North Dorset district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dorset
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025552501391
- Council area
- Dorset
- Police force
- Dorset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Dorset (excluding Christchurch)
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 97 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 December 1980.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Dorset, 18 December 1980
97 m awayRef 1980558012427
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Dorset, 21 November 2018
102 m awayRef 2018551900029
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Dorset, 17 June 1995
130 m awayRef 19955595D2238
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Dorset, 1 July 2004
246 m awayRef 2004554E03141
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in Dorset, 8 November 2006
259 m awayRef 2006556E05370
Slight
Honda CB125TD crash on a C road in Dorset, 18 March 1995
272 m awayRef 19955595D1041
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 207
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 73, hit by vehicle 1 (Peugeot 207)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2025552501391 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Dorset road accident statistics for 2025.